I didn't understand why older people would just sit at slot machines in casinos for eternity until I got sick today and just sat in the casino in Tower Unite with a video essay on the other monitor.

I'm a believer now.

(Only with fake game money though)

There should be an accessibility setting to disable realistic barking or knocking in games, for people like me who raised reactive dogs on accident. I'm gonna get hearing damage trying to play Deliverance II at this rate.

Thank goodness I lived long enough to watch an amazing video essay about Blue Dog's first ever win in Majora's Mask. This is the sort of history I want to live through.

I gotta say, after some grim news cycles, it's amazing how fun and uplifting The Game Awards was. Congratulations to all the winners, and thank you all for another year of banger games.

The SQL Murder Mystery is a lot of fun, and a fun annual way to make sure i havent forgot SQL. Should be a speedrun category, my best full solve was this year (24 minutes).

I never had a Twitter/X account and I'm not sure how this all works, but in case people want to follow here's me:

- SRE for games professionally
- Gamer non-professionally
- Aspiring game dev
- Look honestly I just like video games

Feel free to follow to read a stranger's thoughts on games!